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Marci Shore (Historian) has left states and is now in Canada to begin teaching in fall. Great read.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Shore says she's devastated that she can no longer rely on her country to defend democracy. As a scholar who has studied the arc of fascism in Eastern Europe, she saw the red flags waving well ahead of many others.

Doesn't the US have a pretty well documented record of undermining/destabilizing/overthrowing governments to further its own interests?

I think it's fair to say that the current US president no longer regards Canada as an ally, but I'm not sure they could ever be relied on to defend democracy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If this was happening in a country with any natural resource the US wanted, the US would have invaded in the name of saving democracy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

American's idea of Democracy is "Its beautiful when I win, Its rigged when the bad guys win"

and regardless of who wins, the power and money must flow upward

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